hands
Double Suited
Double suited is an Omaha starting hand with two cards of one suit and two cards of another.
Doyle Brunson
Doyle Brunson is the name given to the starting hand ten-deuce, after the player who won back-to-back WSOP Main Events with it.
Draw
A draw is a hand that is not yet complete and needs more cards to become strong; draw is also a family of games where players swap cards.
Draw Card
A draw card is a card that completes or improves a drawing hand.
Draw Dead
Drawing dead means drawing to a hand that cannot win even if you complete it.
Draw Live
Drawing live means drawing to a hand that would win if you completed it.
Draw Out
To draw out is to improve your hand so that it beats an opponent who was ahead of you.
Draw Snow
To draw snow is to bluff before and after the draw in a draw game.
Drawing
Drawing means playing a hand in order to improve it.
Drawing Hand
A drawing hand is a hand that needs improvement to win, usually a straight or a flush.
Drawing Thin
Drawing thin means chasing a draw that is still live but has a small chance to win.
Dry
Dry describes a board with cards that do not connect and give few straight or flush draws.
Dry Board
A dry board is a set of community cards that do not coordinate with each other and offer few draws.
Ducks
Ducks is a nickname for a pair of twos.
Eagles
Eagles are the cards of a fifth suit in a sixty-five-card deck.
Edge Shot
An edge shot is a bet made from an advantageous position.
Effective Nuts
The effective nuts is a hand that is not the best possible hand but is, in practice, as good as the nuts.
Eubie
Eubie is a nickname for the starting hand eight-six.
Exposed Pair
An exposed pair is a pair that can be seen, as opposed to a split pair or a hidden pair.
Face Card
A face card is a king, queen or jack.
False Openers
False openers is a hand that was opened without meeting the opening requirement.
Fill
To fill is to draw a card that completes a five-card hand: a straight, flush, full house or straight flush.
Fill Up
To fill up is to make a full house.
Fish Hooks
Fishhooks is a nickname for a pair of jacks, because the letter J looks like a fishhook.
Five of a Kind
Five of a kind is five cards of the same rank, possible only with wild cards or more than one deck.
Flop a Set
To flop a set is to hold a pocket pair and see a third card of the same rank on the flop, which gives you three of a kind.
Flush
A flush is five cards of the same suit, not in sequence. It ranks above a straight and below a full house.
Flush Draw
A flush draw is a hand with four cards of one suit that needs one more card of that suit to make a flush. In Hold'em it is usually a hand with two suited hole cards and two more of that suit on the board.
Four Flush
A four flush is a hand with four cards of the same suit and one card of another suit. In Hold'em it is usually called a flush draw, because it needs one more card of the suit to become a flush.
Four of a Kind
Four of a kind, also called quads, is a hand containing four cards of the same rank, plus one other card. It beats a full house and loses only to a straight flush or a royal flush.
Four‑Street (Four to a Straight)
A four straight is four cards in sequence, such as 7-8-9-10, that need one more card to make a straight. The term can describe a hand, or a board that already shows four cards to a straight.
Full Barn
Full barn is slang for a full house.